Synodic month length 29.69 days

Length of current 1072 lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 39 minutes. It is 1 hour and 18 minutes shorter than next lunation 1073 length.

Lunation length longer than mean

Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 55 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 8 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.

Lunar orbit position on 12 September 2086 Thursday 12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠157.5°

This lunation true anomaly is ∠157.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠181.4°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Moon after apogee

2 days after point of apogee on 10 September 2086 at 10:10 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 10 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 23 September 2086 at 10:35 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 402 927 km

Moon before ascending node

12 days after its descending node on 31 August 2086 at 08:57 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 2 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 14 September 2086 at 21:12 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

Moon before southern standstill

11 days after previous North standstill on 1 September 2086 at 02:04 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠22.092°. Next 3 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-21.940° in the next southern standstill on 15 September 2086 at 19:03 in ♐ Sagittarius.